Alexandrea Ravenelle

Jennifer Hill asks Assistant Professor and author, Alexandrea Ravenelle about her book “Hustle & Gig.” Alexandrea shares cautionary tales from her research into the dangers of working in a gig economy job. She also shares what she found from the gig economy workers she interviewed, and ways to make working in the gig economy safer for workers.

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Alexandrea J. Ravenelle is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Mercy College and Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU. Recently awarded an Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Knowledge Challenge grant, Ravenelle is currently working on her next project, After the Hustle, that examines the impact of high-status gig work and sudden platforms closing on gig economy entrepreneurs. Ravenelle's work has been published in The New York Times, Digital Sociologies and the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.